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Australian cabinet papers have revealed security concerns heading into the Sydney 2000 Olympics largely centred on the possibility of a team being taken hostage at the Games.
The National Archives of Australia has released cabinet papers from August 2000, entitled Progress of Commonwealth Security Preparations.
The papers outline the steps taken by the country to protect the Sydney 2000 Olympics from security threats.
Documents reveal the Australian Government sent a team of security experts to the United States to meet with its National Security Council.
A series of exercises were held in May 2020, named Ring True.
“The security issues that could arise during the 2000 Olympics and the appropriate responses to them are now well understood as a result of a series of national exercises that culminated in Exercise Ring True in May 2000,” Attorney General Daryl Williams wrote to the cabinet in August, one month prior to the Games.
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In the eyes of John Howard, Donald Bradman was the greatest living Australian , not a batsman to be associated with an Adelaide sex shop or a cafe filled with cricket memorabilia.
Cabinet papers from 2000 reveal Mr Howard – then Prime Minister – gave a presentation to senior ministers on September 12, telling them he had spoken to the Bradman family about potentially protecting the name against inappropriate commercial use.
Don Bradman and Sid Barnes going out to bat in 1930. Prime Minister John Howard in 2000 moved to protect Bradman s name from commercial misuse.
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The mountain of debt accumulated to deal with the coronavirus pandemic is inter-generational theft, former deputy prime minister John Anderson has warned, as he urged the business community to stand up and demand far-reaching tax reform to help pay it down.
Mr Anderson, a key member of the Howard government, which was the last administration to deliver a budget surplus and clear federal net debt, said he had been stunned by the apparent collapse in concern about debt and the acceptance of printing money .